Alain de Botton Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Mind Quotes

Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.

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The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us. So it must have sounded when there was no Yalta, no Oreanda here; so it sounds now, and it will sound as indifferently and monotonously when we are all no more. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Lying Quotes , Sleep Quotes

I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Stars Quotes , Sleep Quotes

If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Funeral Quotes

Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of (Dr. Seuss's) 'Hop on Pop.'

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He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Reading Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Meditation means undoing what the society has done to you. It has reduced you to a machine; you have to de-automatise yourself, you have to become a man again. You have to come out of this state of unconsciousness, of mechanicalness. You have to come out of this sleep. It is possible only through meditation. There is no other way, there has never been, there will never be. The only way to reduce a man to a machine is take away his consciousness force him to function unconsciously. And just the opposite is the way of meditation: give him back his consciousness.

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Tags : Rajneesh Quotes , Mean Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Men Quotes

I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Passion Quotes , Sleep Quotes

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Wall Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.

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Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Cat Quotes

Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Dream Quotes , Sleep Quotes

But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

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Tags : Adam Ant Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Brain Quotes

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Writing Quotes , Sleep Quotes

He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Teeth Quotes

I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Fire Quotes

Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Land Quotes

On your eyelids crown the god of sleep, Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness, Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep As is the difference betwixt day and night The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team Begins his golden progress in the east.

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